Bobs Watson
33 movies · 13 TV shows
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- Nov 16, 1930
- Died
- Jun 27, 1999 (age 68)
- Place of birth
- Los Angeles, California, USA
- Also known as
- Robert Ball Watson · The Crybaby of Hollywood
Biography
Watson was a member of the Watson Family, famous in the early days of Hollywood as being a houseful of child actors. He was brother to Coy Watson Jr., Harry, Billy, Delmar, Garry, Vivian, Gloria, and Louise, all of whom acted in motion pictures.
The family, known as "the first family of Hollywood", lived by the Echo Park area of Los Angeles and Bobs attended nearby Belmont High School.
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They were honored by the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce by placing the Watson family star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, at 6674 Hollywood Blvd., Hollywood, California.
Watson was best known for his role as "Pee Wee" in the 1938 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film Boys Town and its sequel Men of Boys Town (1941), both starring Spencer Tracy and Mickey Rooney. Tracy and Watson became good friends during the making of the first film, and Watson was reportedly Tracy's last visitor before his death in 1967. In 1939, Watson delivered a fine, tear-jerking performance as Pud, Lionel Barrymore's grandson, in the MGM film, On Borrowed Time. Watson later made guest appearances in many television programs, including The Twilight Zone, Lou Grant, The Beverly Hillbillies, Green Acres, and The Fugitive.
In addition to working in the motion pictures business, Watson went to Claremont School of Theology to become a Methodist minister, inspired from the movie Boys Town. He retired after 30 years of serving in Burbank and La Cañada, California.
He died of prostate cancer in 1999 at Laguna Beach, California.
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Known for
Bobs Watson: movies and TV shows
Acting (46)
- 1993 Perry Mason: The Case of the Wicked Wives
as Judge Ezra Frank
- 1977 Grand Theft Auto
as Minister
- 1970 Mrs. Stone's Thing
as Bartender
- 1968
- 1967
- 1967 First to Fight
as Sergeant Maypole
- 1965
- 1965
- 1963 Take Her, She's Mine
as Western Union Messenger (uncredited)
- 1963
- 1962 What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
as Clerk in Newspaper Department
- 1962
- 1962
- 1962
- 1960
- 1960
- 1959
- 1959
- 1956 The Bold and the Brave
as Bob
- 1955
- 1943 Hi, Buddy
as Tim Martin
- 1941 Hit the Road
as Pesky
- 1941 Scattergood Pulls the Strings
as Jimmy Jordan
- 1941 Men of Boys Town
as Pee Wee
- 1940 Dr. Kildare's Crisis
as Tommy, the Crippled Child
- 1940 Dreaming Out Loud
as Jimmy
- 1940 Wyoming
as Jimmy Kincaid
- 1939 Blackmail
as Hank Ingram
- 1939 On Borrowed Time
as Pud Northrup
- 1939 Calling Dr. Kildare
as Tommy Benson (uncredited)
- 1939 Dodge City
as Harry Cole
- 1939 The Story of Alexander Graham Bell
as George Sanders
- 1938 Kentucky
as Peter Goodwin - 1861
- 1938 Young Dr. Kildare
as Little Boy (uncredited)
- 1938 Boys Town
as Pee Wee
- 1938 Go Chase Yourself
as Junior (uncredited)
- 1938 In Old Chicago
as Bob O'Leary (as a boy)
- 1937 It Happened in Hollywood
as Boy
- 1937 The Great O'Malley
as Boy (uncredited)
- 1937 She's Dangerous
as Boy at Airport
- 1936 Pay As You Exit
as Audience
- 1936 Libeled Lady
as Waif (uncredited)
- 1936
- 1935 Two-Fisted
as Jimmy's Boxing Partner
- 1935 Life Begins at Forty
as Meriwhether Son
- 1932 Life Begins
as Edgar, Harry’s Son (uncredited)